Handle hanger package



April 25, 1944.

E. D. HANSET HANDLE HANGER PACKAGE Filed'OC't. 28, 1940 ME/\/ THEPatented Apr. 25, 1944 UNITED STATES rA-TENT OFFICE 2,347,319 HANDLEHANGER PACKAGE Eugene 1).Hanset, Portland, Oreg. Application October'28,1940, Serial No. .363,'191

i'ci. 1-5s) 2 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in hangers for broom handles, andmore especially to a method and means of handling and conveying thesame.

The hangers are to be used in connection with machines, or apparatus,generally of the type shown and described in my United States Patent No.2,167,452, and my co-pending application, Serial No. 322,145, filed onthe 4th day of March, 1940.

In machines of the type above referred to, a multiplicity of hangers arefirst applied to a carrying plate or bar and are progressively fed, oneat a time, into the machine for attachment to a broom handle, or thelike. Heretofore, in machines of this character, the hangers weresupplied to the operator of the machine in bulk form, in barrels orboxes, and it was necessary for the operator to pick the hangers fromthe bulk, one at a time, and apply them to the machine. This was a slowand tedious process and increased the cost of attaching the hangers tothe handles.

Accordingly, therefore, it is one of the principal objects of thisinvention to provide a support upon which a multiplicity of individualand unattached hangers may be applied and secured so that they may behandled as a unit in shipping, and particularly in presenting them tothe machine with which they are to be used. The support is of suchformation that it readily receives the hangers from the machine in whichthe hangers are produced, and provides means whereby they may be readilyremoved at either end of the support, one at a time, for advancementinto the machine which attaches them to the handles.

Another object of the invention is the provision of means for lockingthe hangers at both ends of their support.

These and other objects will appear as my invention is more fullyhereinafter described in the following specification, illustrated in theaccompanying drawing, and finally pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a support having a multiplicity ofhangers applied thereto, and its ends turned back on themselves forretaining the hangers on the support.

Figure 2' is a perspective view of the support itself with the engagingelements in the ends thereof in extended position to receive and torelease the hangers.

Figure 3-is a modified form of means for securing the hangers at theends of the support.

Figure 4 is an enlarged sectional view taken along the line 44 of Figure3.

Figure 5 is a perspectiv view of a modified form of support providedwith means for receiving the sharpened ends of the hangers to protectthe hands of the user.

Figure 6 is a sectional end elevation taken on the line 6-6 of Figure 7through the support only and not the carrying bar.

Figure 7 is a perspective view of a fragment of a carrying bar on amachine for attaching hangers to handles and showing the hanger supportslidably embracing the carrying bar, and hangers being advanced from thesupport to the carrying bar.

Figure 8 is an end View of the hanger support in a relaxed position.

Figure 9 is an end view of the same hanger support embraced by thehangers and compressed or deformed thereby so that the walls of thesupport expand in complete contact with the interior of each hanger andcause the latter to cling to the support.

Referring now more particularly to the drawmg:

In Figure 2, reference numeral I indicates, generally, the main body ofthe hanger support which consists of a top wall 2 and side walls 3. Theside walls are slightly reduced at their ends to provide projectingtongues 4 which may be folded rearwardly with respect to the main body Iand the hangers thereon, as shown in Figure The hangers 5 are shaped asshown in Figures 6 and '7, and are automatically fed, from the machinein which they are made, on to the main body I of the support. In thisfeeding operation the tongues 4 at one end are allowed to remainprojected, as shown in dotted lines in Figure 1, while the tongues atthe opposite end are folded rearwardly to hold the hangers on to thesupport. When the support is entirely filled, it provides a convenientmeans of handling a multiplicity of hangers as a unit for packing andshipping, and particularly forms a convenient means for rapidly andaccurately advancing the hangers from the support to the carrying bar ofa hangerattaching machine.

In Figures 3 and 4, I illustrate a modified method of utilizing thetongues as a limit stop and hanger-engaging means. In this instance thetongues 4A are bent rearwardly over and around the outside of the firstthree or four hangers, and then inwardly against the walls 3A,

and then rearward under the hangers that follow as they are being fed onto the support.

In the modified form of the support, illustrated in Figures 5, 6 and 7,the lower edges of the walls 3B are bent inwardly as at 6, downwardly asat I, thence outwardly as at 8, to form channels 9 to slidably embracethe pointed ends H! of the hangers to thereby protect the hands of theuser.

In both forms of the invention the body member is preferably made offlexible or yieldable material such as cardboard, fibre, thin sheetmetal, or the like, and its outside dimensions are slightly greater thanthe inside dimensions of the hangers so that the body member when loadedwill expand into complete contact with the interior of each hanger, asbestshown in Figure 9, and also in Figure 6. By this arrangement eachhanger is frictionally held to the hanger support.

While I have shown a particular form of em- Having thus described theinvention, what I 2 claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patentis:

1. A support for hangers, said hangers having two downwardly andinwardly projecting leg portions, said support comprising an ,elongatedbody member having two side walls formed integral with a flexible topwall, said top wall when in a normal or relaxed position being ofgreater width than the distance between the downwardly extending legs ofthe hanger, whereby said side walls of the body member will bear againstthe said legs of the hangers when the hangers are applied to the .bodymember for maintaining them in position thereon.

2. A support for hangers, said hangers having two downwardly andinwardly projecting leg portions, said support comprising an elongatedbody member having two vertical side walls formed integral with aflexible and substantially flat top wall, said top wall when in a normalor relaxed position being of greater width than the distance between thedownwardly extending legs of the hanger, whereby said side walls of thebody member will bear against the said legs of the hangers when thehangers are applied to the body member for maintaining them in positionthereon, and said side walls being of greater length than the top wallto form outwardly projecting flexible tongues adapted to be folded backon to the side walls.

EUGENE D. HANSET.

